summer in italy, IT

our stops in italy were: 

1. kloster neustift (abbazia di novacella) ~ our yearly 3 days seminar for south tirol's teachers' organization ASM ~ we love to do s.th. new each time, so this time we swum in the ice cold eisack river (isarco) and spent 1 night in the nearby hotel brückenwirt, which we knew only as restaurant & beergarden guests before ~ yes, we love südtirol (south tirol) 💝
2. hiking tour from the fane alm (fanealm) to the labeseben alm (2138m) and further to the lake wilder see (2538m) in the german speaking part of the italian alps. folks, i've seen a real capricorn up there! the stars formation? no, the alpine ibex (steinbock) 🐐. my dears, there was no wikipedia page for this beautiful and also deepest mountain lake in south tirol, thus i've created a new one here: wiki wilder see (südtirol). it took me maybe 30-50 minutes, so i'm curious if the page will survive or if wikipedia deletes it due to low quality, violation of some editing rules or the like 😇. folks, wiki works fine! after only 2 days there were 4 wiki users who enhanced + improved my article, so i was so happy that i've created a new wiki page for the lake radlsee, too. who wants to read my corresponding wiki-radlsee-page as well?
3. bozen (bolzano) ~ my wife + me were witnesses to a marriage. did you know that for a german couple it is easier and especially faster to arrange a marriage in south tirol than in munich? and that it is automatically & legally valid as a marriage for german authorities?
4. dosoledo belluno ~ a small village in the italian speaking part of the italian alps
5. sistiana ~ we were walking the rilke trail at the cliff coast segment of the northern italian adria
6. castello di duino ~ duino castle ~ novi devinski grad => strange, the slovenian name for this castle 'devinski grad' is identical to castle devin in slovakia close to bratislava. just in case you didnt know, in that part of italy lives many slovenes, so the banners, road signs & other information is written in both languages, italian and slovenian
7. miramare castle (schloss miramar) in grignano miramare close to triest (trieste) ~ built between 1856 and 1860 for the chief commander of the austrian navy and botanist🌹, ferdinand maximilian habsburg, the brother of the austrian emperor, franz josef I and for his wife, the belgian princess leopoldine. maximilian later became the emperor of mexico, too 

1) neustift aka novacella:

the wolkenstein lounge in the neustift monastery was

my mobile work office for few days. nice, isnt it?

the engelsburg castle in neustift functions as an arts gallery today

chess with 32 queens and much more below by artist egon k., www.daporta.com

i love arts and the best of all wives, you see? 😃

we + the water rescue guys swum in the ice cold eisack river (isarco). unlike the exercising guys, we have had no neoprene suits ☃

2) lake wilder see

my hiking tour today was about 2.5-3h uphill + a little bit faster down ~ 

fanealm + labiseben alm + lake wilder see (2538m)

fanealm ~ fane alm

labeseben alm (2138m)

finally, lake wilder see (2538m)

 lake wilder see (2538m) in front of the double peak wilde kreuzspitze (3135m)

3) bozen / bolzano

formal marriage + wedding in bozen / bolzano

town hall ... marriage time is coming soon 💕

love is in the (h)air 💖

bolzano, time for lunch + the wedding celebration

south tirol, the german speaking part of italian alps (provincesüdtirol-trentino)

4) dosoledo belluno

dosoledo belluno, the italian speaking part of italian alps (province veneto)

almost no water in the rivers close the tolmezzo?

5+6) sistiana + nuovo duino castlello (novi devinski grad, duino castle)

the small noble port portopiccolo in sistiana, italian adria

our small but somehow nice bed & breakfast room for 2 nights we've found

in sistiana via google maps (villa camilla) + we've found a nudist beach, too

sistiana, coast + port + parking + beach ... not a nice place for swimming

sistiana, at least our walking at the rilke trail at the cliff coast was nice.

castello di duino ~ duino castle ~ novi devinski grad

what a good luck in sistiana / rilke trail: 

dinner + sunset + sea view from the camping above the cliff

two of us

sun set in porto piccolo

nuovo duino castle (novi devinski grad)

7) miramar castle

castello miramare / schloss miramar / miramare castle

what a couple: charlotte, princess from belgium + maximilian von habsburg

italian revolution in trieste + you see, maximilian was a botanist

Maximilian of Habsburg and his brother Carlo Ludovico visit to slave market of Smyrna (as guests of halim pasha), 1850, by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880), oil on canvas, 105x135 cm. Turkey, 19th century

some european kings ... ohhhh, the bavarian king ludwig II at the lower picture

 .... and napoleon III above

in castle's garden

a short and nice swimming at the miramar castle

1st snow at the italian-austrian border already in august (!!!)

more pictures here.

our 2023 summer time impresssions here.